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Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center performs the following overnight studies (daytime tests may be scheduled for shift workers):
The multiple sleep latency test is a recording of brain waves, eye movements and muscle activity and EKG during five 20-minute nap periods scheduled throughout the day in two-hour intervals. Used to rule out narcolepsy, cataplexy and idiopathic hypersomnolence, the MSLT can accurately assess daytime sleepiness by measuring the length of time required to fall asleep during each nap (sleep latency).
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Usually, the MSLT is scheduled the day after the overnight study, in which case you'll remain in the hospital throughout the test (the entire night and the following day). Some of the electrodes used in your overnight study will be removed, while those on the head and around the eyes, chin and the chest will be left on for the MSLT.
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The MWT is used to determine a patient's ability to remain awake in the daytime. You'll be asked to schedule an entire day, during which your brain waves, eye movements and muscle activity will be recorded during 20- or 40-minute nap periods scheduled in two-hour increments. Preparations are similar to those for the MSLT. A nighttime test may be scheduled for those whose work schedule requires them to be awake during the night.


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Sometimes the scientist will do very well in the pre-interview, but put them in front of a microphone and they don't do well – one launched into an eight-minute PowerPoint presentation. We reverted to 'let me summarize and you say yes or no.' I asked one scientist about why one alternative energy source is better than another, and he launched back into the history of civilization and how cavemen used fire. When we got to the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, I stopped him.When I coach speakers and use this example, I ask, "Did that speaker succeed?" The answer's always no, on many counts. He didn't answer the question--something the audience expects--and presumed too much about what the interviewer wanted to get at with that question. He lost the chance, perhaps, to say more about what he's doing today, rather than the full history of his field. And if you are speaking to a live audience, that chatty response is just shutting out introverts, shy audience members and those not aggressive enough to shout you down. Is that the effect you wish to have?
Keeping your answer short is important for a variety of reasons, from letting reporters do their job in an interview to making sure your audience members don't feel silenced. If you have trouble putting on the brakes on and letting your questioner get a word in edgewise, you'll benefit from practice with partners and friends ahead of time. Walk through the questions you expect, the questions you want and the questions you fear, and have your friends clock your answers and suggest shorter paths to success. Use these tactics to keep your answers thoughtful and shorter:
- Use a three-step formula for every answer: It's Pause. Answer. Stop. Pause so you take a quick moment to gather your thoughts and make sure you're responding, not reacting. Answer what was asked, without too much embellishment. Then stop. If the questioner wants to hear more, you'll find out quickly.
- Put some checks on your assumptions about the question: Many long-winded answers get their start when the speaker assumes the questioner wants to know several things, instead of just one. An easy way to focus and narrow down your answer is to turn the tables, briefly, by asking a question or two of your questioner. Then proceed down that narrower corridor.
- Don't make your default a description of the entire history of your field of expertise. This is a professional liability for scientists and other subject-matter experts, and it suggests that they fear the questioner won't understand the answer of today without learning (in capsule form) everything they themselves were taught to get to this point. Problem is, that's often too large a capsule for the rest of us to swallow. A better approach: Answer today's question, but hint at some directions you'd like the follow-up question to take, just in case there's a follow-up. In the example above, you might say, "Knowing what we know right now, I'd rather bet on wind technology than hybrid vehicles, because they have so much more potential to change the world economy" is a direct answer that suggests there's more to say.
- Think of your answer as a menu. If you have plenty of answer and aren't sure how much the questioner wants to order, offering a menu in your answer is a smart idea. Narrow yourself down to three options, stated briefly, then stop--and let the questioner choose which one to explore further.
- Remember the introverts in your audience. Introverts are great listeners, but if you don't give them an opening--and a clear closing to each of your statements--you'll be cutting them off without realizing it. Use the pause-answer-stop formula to keep the lines open so none of your audience members needs to talk over you to get in a question. It's just one of the things extroverted speakers can do for introverts.
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The Episcopal Diocese of Maine comprises 10,000 people worshipping in 59 churches and ministries across the state.
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The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland comprises the northern and central Maryland counties of Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, and Washington and the city of Baltimore. It is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church, tracing its roots back to 1608 when Captain John Smith oversaw the first Christian worship in the upper Chesapeake Bay. Today, the Diocese of Maryland has more than 44,200 members and 112 congregations.
The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, established in 1784, is one of the first Episcopal dioceses organized in the United States, and is among the largest, with 79,000 members and 194 congregations.
The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan comprises 95 congregations in southeastern lower Michigan. 18 of the congregations are in the city of Detroit; others go north approaching Grand Blanc and west to Lansing and Hillsdale.
The Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee comprises over 15,000 members and 63 congregations, covering southern Wisconsin.
The Episcopal Church in Minnesota maintains one of the largest Departments of Indian Work in the entire Episcopal Church, with faith communities on nearly every reservation in Minnesota. Additionally, the diocese supports faith communities worshiping in several languages, including Hmong and Spanish. It comprises 22,000 members and 106 congregations.
The Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi has approximately 20,000 members. Mississippi Episcopalians are particularly involved in the ministry of racial reconciliation, a ministry that has been handed down since the 1960s when the Diocese took an active role in the Civil Rights Movement.
The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri comprises 14,598 members and 49 congregations.
The Episcopal Diocese of Montana, established in 1904, covers 25 counties and comprises 5,400 members and 43 congregations, many in small rural communities throughout the state.


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Oblates of Saint Charles
A diocesan religious society founded in 1578 under the title of "Oblates of Saint Ambrose" by Saint Charles Borromeo in collaboration with G. Martinelli and the "Priests of the Holy Crown" who served the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre at Milan. The society was divided into six groups, two remaining at the city house, the others laboring in various parts of the diocese. Dispersed by Napoleon, 1810, the surviving community of Our Lady of Rho was reorganized in 1848 by Bartolommeo Romilli under the name, "Oblates of Saint Charles." The members, all priests, take a simple vow of obedience to the bishop, whom they assist in the government and administration of the diocese, managing seminaries, colleges and schools, giving retreats, serving vacant parishes, and engaging in mission work. Father Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI, was a member of this society. Oblates were established in London by Cardinal Wiseman, with rules drawn up by Cardinal Manning, approved 1857, 1877. Installed at Saint Mary of the Angels, Bayswater, they undertook various Apostolic labors in the dioceses of Westminster and Southwark, especially in reviving the English secular clergy. Their ecclesiastical studies consist chiefly in ascetical and mystical theology.


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The climate and influences of the Pacific Northwest have led to a design aesthetic that enhances the experience in a region where much of the season is spent indoors. Modern architects influenced much of the Northwest's home design through the incorporation of natural elements, such as wood and stone. Lighting is an important element, especially in an area that often experiences overcast skies. Large windows let in light and create a natural extension to the outdoors. Indigenous tribal art and Japanese design aesthetics are also commonly found in Northwestern designs.
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Four pretrial inmates at the Baltimore City Detention Center were stabbed by a fellow detainee and taken to hospitals Friday, a spokesman with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said.
A fifth man was suffered minor injuries and was treated inside the facility, spokesman Mark A. Vernarelli in a statement. The four others were taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital for non life-threatening injuries.
The stabbing occurred in housing for men awaiting trial for crimes allegedly committed in Baltimore City, the statement said. A motive has not been determined.
The detention center houses mostly those awaiting trial.
The Internal Investigative Unit of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is investigating the incident, interviewing detainees and employees.


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Dallas-based boutique broker-dealer firm Prospera Financial Services announced on Thursday that it has acquired TCA Financial Group in Charlotte, N.C. TCA is a full service broker-dealer founded in 2004. The acquisition means Prospera will be able to increase its footprint in the mid-Atlantic region.
"It made sense," said Tim Edwards, principal and executive vice president at Prospera, when asked about the reasons for the acquisition. "It was an opportunity for us to expand our footprint with quality advisors that have a high production per rep and a similar culture."
TCA will close its broker-dealer and operate as an OSJ under Prospera, but will retain its name and branding. The acquisition also comes with an expanded clearing relationship, as TCA is on the Pershing platform.
"TCA was at a size in which regulation was becoming more and more a part of their cost of doing business," Edwards added. "We said 'look, concentrate on your advisors and clients," and this affords them the opportunity to do that."
Edwards noted that Prospera is a boutique firm, and will remain so. He doesn't see it ever becoming a firm "with thousands of reps." That said, the acquisition of firms "between $5 million and $10 million, or even $5 million and $20 million" is part of a defined growth strategy.
"We have a growth strategy, and part of that growth strategy is through acquisitions," he concluded. "There is a lot of opportunity right now."
Founded in 1982, Prospera Financial Services was named Broker-Dealer of the Year by Investment Advisor in 2009, 2010 and 2012.


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Video rental company Netflix has used its extensive consumption of the Amazon Web Services cloud to give something back to the open source community. The company's Chaos Monkey system was developed to ensure that its operations were capable of self-healing (or at least continuing to run) should instances in the AWS cloud fail. This month sees the firm open source its code.
The firm's Cory Bennett and Ariel Tseitlin have written on the Netflix techblog explaining that over the last year, "Chaos Monkey has terminated over 65,000 instances running in our production and testing environments. Most of the time nobody notices, but we continue to find surprises caused by Chaos Monkey, which allows us to isolate and resolve them so they don't happen again."
Chaos Monkey is perhaps not that "chaotic"; it is in fact completely configurable and is flexible enough to run on clouds other than AWS. "The software design is flexible enough to work with other cloud providers or instance groupings and can be enhanced to add that support," write the pair.
Justifying this open source release and clarifying that their company's technical prowess is fit for public consumption, Bennett and Tseitlin explain that because the cloud is all about redundancy and fault-tolerance — no single component can guarantee 100% uptime (and even the most expensive hardware eventually fails).
This means that Netflix had to design a cloud architecture where individual components can fail without affecting the availability of the entire system — and now the company has released this intelligence to the community contribution model of computing.
"In effect, we have to be stronger than our weakest link. We can use techniques like graceful degradation on dependency failures, as well as node-, rack-, datacenter/availability-zone, and even regionally-redundant deployments. But just designing a fault tolerant architecture is not enough. We have to constantly test our ability to actually survive these 'once in a blue moon' failures," write the pair.
Netflix says it has plans to open up more of its architecture and may move to release Janitor Monkey next, a cloud "clutter and waste" management tool. The firm also sports Latency Monkey, Conformity Monkey, Doctor Monkey, and Security Monkey among its "Simian Family" of technologies.


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Gansler: Brown relying on race in bid for governor
AG says comments captured on tape were taken out of context
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler is defending himself after comments he directed at gubernatorial candidate and current Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown were secretly recorded during a meeting.
During that meeting, Gansler told campaign volunteers that Brown, his rival in next year's Democratic gubernatorial primary, is relying on his race to get elected. The Washington Post reported that the comments were captured on a recording of a July 15 meeting for volunteers in Annapolis and were provided to the newspaper by someone not employed by either campaign.
Gansler talked strategy and race at the meeting. According to a Post transcript, the comment came after an audience member asked him to compare himself to Brown.
"Right now, his campaign slogan is, 'Vote for me, I want to be the first African-American governor of Maryland.' Which is fine. There's no one bigger on diversity than I am," Gansler told the group in the recording. "That's a laudable goal, but you need a second sentence: 'Because here's what I've done, and here's why I've done it.'"
Gansler's campaign didn't dispute the comments; however, on Tuesday evening, the attorney general told reporters they were taken out of context.
"You can look at the transcript. I said absolutely nothing wrong. In fact, I said what I think people believe -- that we shouldn't be talking about race in this campaign. We should be talking about whose ideas, whose vision, who has leadership and who has character to be the governor of Maryland," Gansler said.
The Brown campaign said it wants an apology, saying, "The lieutenant governor is disappointed in the attorney general's comments. We've been busy articulating ideas about what's best for Marylanders. The only person using race as a divisive issue in this campaign is the attorney general, and that's disappointing."
However, Gansler fired back, saying, "No. The Washington Post reporter brought that (idea). What we said is exactly what is in the transcript, which is we shouldn't talk about race."
AG's campaign accuses Brown of illegally recording meeting
Gansler's campaign also accused Brown's people of breaking the state's wiretap law, but said it won't press charges.
"If Anthony Brown wanted to know what we are doing in our campaign, he could just pick up the phone and call me. They don't need to commit a felony to do it," Gansler said.
"It's unfortunate that Anthony Brown's campaign has to stoop to the level of Richard Nixon and send in spies to illegally record a private campaign organizing meeting," Gansler strategist Doug Thornell said.
Brown's campaign manager denied any involvement in the recording and called Gansler's comments "out of touch with Maryland values."
"If I had said these things on tape, I'd want to change the subject, too. The Brown campaign had nothing to do with this," said Justin Schall, Brown's campaign manager.
WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team spoke with the reporter who broke the story, John Wagner, but he would not divulge details about the recording.
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Author, University of Maryland law professor and political expert Larry Gibson said Brown has more than race to run on.
"I don't know what Mr. Gansler meant, but obviously the lieutenant governor has additional credentials he will run on. He's a military man, a colonel who served in Iraq. He has two degrees from Harvard, undergraduate and law school. He served in the General Assembly and comes from the county with the largest number of Democratic voters in state," Gibson said.
Towson University professor of political science John Bullock said when it comes to recent gubernatorial races; blacks make up 35 percent of the Democratic primary voters -- a significant group Gansler will need to be successful.
"Unfortunately for Gansler, what he has done is he has seemed to be the one to interject race into it. Race has always been a subtext, but he's introduced it and put himself in a little bit of a predicament," Bullock said.
While it is illegal to record someone without his or her permission in the state of Maryland, Bullock said in the era of smartphones, politicians should always assume they are being recorded.
During the meeting where the recording took place, Gansler said he plans to formally announce his bid for governor in September and announce his running mate, who will likely be black, about a week later.
"It will be an African-American, and it will be somebody from either Baltimore or Prince George's. I cannot overstate the amount of pressure I have from both of those places to get a person from there," Gansler said in the recording.
He elaborated on that sentiment with reporters, saying, "We live in a state with the No. 2 minority achievement gap in K-12. That's got to be addressed. Hopefully that'll be addressed by the lieutenant governor or myself, so we need to have people that reflect the community that we are going to be representing."
Thornell sent a statement late Tuesday afternoon, saying, "Doug strongly believes that candidates running for office should be judged on their record and ideas and not on their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. These are beliefs that Doug has fought his entire career to uphold and are central to who he is as a person. The comments he made at an organizing meeting before a small, but diverse crowd make that point crystal clear. He understands that taken out of context, as it was, his words could be misinterpreted by some and for that he is deeply disappointed."


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I will not necessarily be working my way down the Pages of the 1040 in order – dealing with items of income before deductions. I will be skipping all over the place. But when the series is completed I will organize the posts in proper order in a published report.
As I said in the initial post of the series - Your comments on my recommendations are welcomed and encouraged. I especially want to hear from fellow tax professionals.
OK – let's begin. Just coincidentally we begin with the topic of Filing Status.
Currently there are 5 choices for a return's filing status, each with its own rules and regulations –
1. Single
2. Married Filing Joint
3. Married Filing Separately
4. Head of Household
5. Qualifying Widow(er)
In the new Tax Code I would reduce this to 3 –
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2. Married Filing Joint
3. Married Filing Separately
The new Code would create neither a "marriage tax penalty" nor, for the most part, a "marriage tax benefit".
The Married Filing Separately status would permit a married couple, whether living together or not, to file as if they were filing two individual returns as Single. All of the exclusions from income, deductions and credits that are available to a Single filer would be available to the Married Filing Separate status. The Tax Rate Schedule (and Tax Table) for Married Filing Separately would be exactly the same as that for Single. As per current law this status would be elective, and two-earning families will be able to file a joint return if they so choose.
I would create a special 2-columned 1040 and 1040A form that would allow both spouses to file separately on one return. Married taxpayers would still have the option of filing separately on two separately filed returns.
The Married Filing Joint status would provide for double of everything available to the Single status. For example, if, as under current law, a Single filer can deduct up to $3,000 in net capital losses per year, a married couple filing jointly would be able to deduct up to $6,000. The standard deduction for Married Filing Joint would be twice that for Single, as it currently is under the extended "Bush" tax cuts. It would be as if the separate incomes and deductions allowed on the new 2-column 1040 for separate filers were combined in one column.
The Married Filing Joint status would provide a marriage tax benefit for most couples with only one working spouse, but I would support a benefit for couples where one spouse is a "stay-at-home" parent.
The tax benefits currently provided by the Head of Household and Qualifying Widow(er) status would be replaced by an increased either dependent personal exemption or dependent tax credit (I have not yet decided which) that would combine the current personal exemption for dependents and the Child Tax Credit. If a dependent exemption is used it would be much greater than the personal exemption allowed for taxpayer and spouse. If a dependent credit is allowed then there would be no personal exemptions for dependents.
I like the idea of having only one Tax Rate Schedule (and Tax Table) for all taxpayers, regardless of filing status. In the case of Married Filing Joint perhaps the net taxable income would be divided by two, the tax determined from either table or rate schedule on this half of the combined income, and then multiply that tax amount by two. This method assumes that income earned by and deductions allowed for the couple combined apply equally to each spouse if they had filed separately.
John and Jane Q Taxpayer file a joint return. The net taxable income on the return is $100,000. The tax is taken from the tables is based on $50,000 of income. If the tax on $50,000 is $5,000, then the tax liability on the joint return is $10,000 (the 10% tax rate on this level of income is used only as an example for simplicity).


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A native of Togliatti, Russia, Anton Klementyev moved to Yaroslavl, playing for the good, productive Lokomotiv school. He earned a regular spot with first with the junior team, then with the farm team in the Russian third league.
2008-09: Klementyev made his debut in the KHL, playing one game for Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. He also made his debut with the junior national team in the Tyumen tournament, where he played a solid, tight defensive game. Klementyev was selected by New York in the fifth round (122nd overall) of the 2009 NHL Draft.
2009-10: Klementyev made the move to North America as a 19-year-old and made his NHL debut in a March game against Columbus. Klementyev played a little over six minutes in that game and did not make the scoresheet. He played for Russia at the 2010 World Junior U-20 Championship and was scoreless and +2 with 4 PMs. in six games.
2010-11: Klementyev spent his second season in North America with Bridgeport (AHL). He was one of the better defensive defensemen for the Sound Tigers before suffering a season-ending leg injury in February. In 51 games for last-place Bridgeport he scored 2 goals with 7 assists and was -3 with 28 PMs.
2011-12: Klementyev skated in 20 games for Islanders AHL affiliate Bridgeport and was minus-one with 1 assist and 8 penalty minutes. The Islanders attempted to loan him to an ECHL club but he refused to report and was ultimately released by New York in February. He finished the year in Russia – skating for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's second team in the VHL as well as playing one game with the club's U-22 junior team.
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A reliable defenseman, who plays a steady, hard nose style and whose tasks are mainly defensive. Klementyev doesn't look comfortable joining the rush or bringing the puck through the zones, but he is a valuable blue liner who has very good checking abilities and physical play. Never scared by the battles along the boards, his strength and balance make him an estimable presence in the corners. He doesn't play the puck often and mostly he just looks out for tape-to-tape passes, but he rarely misses them and can also deal well with passes coming from linemates. A good skater, isn't a speedster but isn't slow at all and skates well backwards. He has a not bad shot from the point but he doesn't use it often as he mostly plays a defensive game, paying more attention to covering the zone getting back.
At this stage of development Anton Klementyev has to be considered a long shot for the NHL. His defensive awareness and his physical play will be surely helpful in his future, but first he has to earn some experience prior to really pursue an NHL career. Klementyev was sent to the ECHL but did not report and was suspended, so his future is up in the air at this time.


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An AMD Black Edition processor for just £65? What devilry is this? Well, despite the arrival of the improved Phenom II, the lower end of the scale is where AMD still overwhelmingly operates.
An unlocked CPU multiplier for easy overclocking is a feature that only comes with Intel CPUs costing well above £500. The 7750's other item of interest is 2MB of shared L3 cache.
That's right, this chip is actually based on the first-generation 65nm Phenom architecture and therefore benefits from a few added extras included wider floating point execution.
Overall, a pretty nice dual-core CPU at the stock 2.7GHz operating frequency. The only slight let-down is its inability to clock beyond 3.1GHz.


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Where's G?
As I mentioned last week when Faith Hill and Tim McGraw arrived in London with their daughters, there would have to be a visit with the Paltrow-Martins. And here they are -- Chris Martin with the Hill-McGraws with his children and their children hanging out at the park...but no Gwyneth.
Where is Gwyneth?
Is Gwyneth back at the house working on the kale salad and steamed white fish?
One of the best parts, maybe the best part, of Gwyneth's first cookbook, My Father's Daughter, was the page of acknowledgments, essentially a list of all her famous friends -- from the Seinfelds to the B-Jays, to the Turlington-Burnes, and so many more I can't remember or google from blackberry. This time, who will be included? Who has earned inclusion? And will she be able to find a way to namecheck the Blue Ivy Carter?
Is there a recipe for what she feeds Cameron Diaz on comfort nights?
There's the GOOP food book we really want: what Gwyneth cooks for her famous friends, from Cam to Gwen to Stella to Aniston and Valentino. With pictures.


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DENVER (AP) — Golden State coach Mark Jackson thought Stephen Curry's stat line was a thing of beauty.
Not so his dance.
After sinking one of his six 3-pointers as the Warriors pulled away from the Denver Nuggets for a 109-101 victory Thursday night, Curry did the old shimmy-shake as he trotted back downcourt.
It was admittedly the only blemish of the night for Curry, who scored a season-best 36 points and sank 13 of 17 shots, including 6 of 9 from behind the arc.
"Just a spectacular night. When you look at that stat line it's a thing of beauty," said Jackson, who didn't extend his rave review to Curry's lame dance move.
"I tried to hold my laugh and stay in coach mode but I had to giggle," Jackson said. "Now I know why my dad told me to stop doing it."
Curry was embarrassed by what he fears will become the most mocked dance by an athlete since New England Patriots tight end Rob Growkowski was caught on camera dancing the night away shirtless after the Super Bowl last weekend.
"I don't know what got into me," Curry said. "But I turned around and I saw (Jackson). We had joked about it earlier that it was his signature move. I haven't practiced it but I'm scared to look at the film. That was the first time and probably the last time."
The Nuggets had more of a problem with his hot hand than his shimmying shoulders.
They lost their fifth straight game overall and their fifth straight at home, too. They've lost seven of eight as they fight through injuries, absences, physical fatigue and mental exhaustion.
The eight-point differential doesn't begin to tell how lopsided this one was.
The Warriors shot 52 percent both overall and from 3-point range, sinking 13 of 25 from behind the arc, they blocked 14 shots to Denver's one and started the second half with a 24-5 run.
Klay Thompson scored a career-best 19 points, Dorrell Wright had 15 and Monta Ellis 14 for the Warriors, who used a 37-20 third quarter to put this one away.
"That was horrible," Nuggets guard Arron Afflalo said. "You've got to give the Warriors credit, but on our home floor, that was horrible."
Trailing 51-47 at the half, Golden State opened the third quarter with a 14-2 run sparked by three jumpers from Curry and a fadeaway basket by Ellis that made it 61-53.
A 3-pointer by Afflalo, who led the Nuggets with 26 points, stopped the run. But the Warriors scored the next 10 points, capped by a 3-pointer from Curry, who did the regrettable shoulder-shake dance back downcourt in front of the scorer's table.
The Warriors made 14 of 20 shots in the decisive third quarter, taking an 84-71 lead, and they led by 20 points in the fourth quarter.
"I think we just stopped doing the things that we were doing earlier, and I blame myself for that because I was supposed to bring the energy," said Nuggets rookie Kenneth Faried, who set career highs with 10 points and eight rebounds. "We just need to stay focused on and not get down on each other."
The Nuggets look nothing like the team that started out 14-5 and was the feel-good story of the NBA for the first six weeks of the season following the long lockout.
Without starters Danilo Gallinari, their leading scorer, and Timofey Mozgov, who are both sidelined by sprained ankles, the rest of the roster isn't nearly as effective as it was before.
Forward Corey Brewer will get the majority of Gallinari's minutes during the month he's expected to be out, but Brewer missed his third straight game Thursday night following the death of his father. He's expected to rejoin the team at Indiana this weekend.
After the Nuggets' 10-point loss to Dallas a night earlier, coach George Karl suggested playing in Lithuania during the NBA lockout might have caught up to speedy point guard Ty Lawson.
Lawson had his second straight double-double Thursday night but several of his short shots again didn't fall.
Overall, Karl said his team hadn't recovered from three games in three nights last week, suggesting there was a residual effect both mentally and physically on his team. Every team will go through funks during this compressed season, and this is just the Nuggets' turn to endure the quirks of the busy schedule, Karl said.
He figures the Nuggets' good start gave them a bit of a buffer for tough times like these. Still, opponents are now coming into the Pepsi Center smelling blood.
"The last two home losses we've had, teams have just hit incredible shots," Afflalo said. "That's a credit to them a little bit, but our defensive intensity, including myself, needs to pick up."
Notes: Afflalo had the second-highest scoring game of his career with the 26 points. He scored 31 on Jan. 11, 2011, against Phoenix. ... Curry's previous season high was 32 points against Portland on Jan. 25. ... The Nuggets hadn't lost five straight at the Pepsi Center since 2003.


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Update: Us Brits now have our own version, so check out our Hands on: HTC Incredible S review.
Another HTC phone - the Incredible - has been shown off on video, taking it one step closer to release.
We brought you news of this bright red phone earlier this month, and now the video (albeit a terribly filmed video, even by spyshot standard) confirms it to be real.
The Incredible is packing a 3.7-inch screen with a Snapdragon processor, 256MB of RAM and the optical trackpad we know and love from the Desire.
Double the flash
It also has a 5MP camera with dual LED flash - something that we haven't seen on the recent crop of phones from the Taiwanese brand.
We've not heard any word on a UK release date for the Incredible, and if we're honest we'd imagine this is only going to be a US-only release (not least because it doesn't have a distinctive chin).
But we like new phones, and if this is morphed into a more Europe-centric device (that doesn't cannibalise the Desire) then bring on the dual-LED flashiness!
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Garuda Kaja
Garuda is no longer in business, and the Kaja has been discontinued. If you're looking for something new, check out the best four-season tents for 2020.
Reviewers Paid: $399.00-$450.00
4-star: 5
3-star: 0
2-star: 1
1-star: 0
Very difficult to seam seal. It has leaked since the day I bought it. Re-sealed...still leaks. Anyone want to buy a used Kaja? Looks better than it works.
Design: single wall tent
Sleeps: 2
This tent is a great value in a 4 season single wall. It's extremely well made, and includes a useful vestibule. I've used it year-round, and find it makes a great 1-person backpacking tent. It's light enough that I don't hesitate to bring it on all my trips. Space for two people is a little tight, though. Make sure you get along well with your partner!
One caveat: the tent is not factory seam-taped, and sealing the seams yourself is a BITCH! It cost me the better part of a weekend and a thousand toulene-addled brain cells to get it done right. The tent hasn't leaked yet, though.
I paid about $450, but Northern Mountain Supply is selling them for $317 now, which is an unbelieveably good price.
Design: 4 season mountaineering single wall
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: pretty easy -- 5-10 mins
Weight: 5lbs 6oz
Price Paid: paid $450
I purchased the Kaja from Northern Mtn Supply after pricing and setting up comparable Bibler and other tents. I have used it for 4-6 day solo and double trips in the Whites here in New England, and in the High Uintas Wilderness in Utah last week. Temps ran down to 25* at 12,000', rain and hail storms were extreme, and the wind howled a few of the nights. With all this, the tent was a joy to be in. The seam-sealing took a while, but it was easy. Not a single drop of leakage. The ventilation is excellent with the combination of vents on the ends and roof. I'm 6'4" and can fit with no problem...when solo, I lie diagonally to get more stretchout room. The gold color helps brighten up the interior nicely. Nice tent overall, a 9 on my scale. A 10 would have to be a true 4 lbs, 1 person (6'4"), bombproof, singlewall, internal frame, 4 season tent. Email me if you come across one. Climb High!
Design: 4 season/singlewall
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: Super easy, 3 minutes, even in bad weather or darkness.
Weight: 5lbs,6oz
Price Paid: $400
Great little tent, but it is a real pain to seam seal correctly. Light, good-lookin, durable, decent vestibule with good venting.
Design: 4 season, single-wall, 3 pole
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: under 3 minutes, all inside
Weight: 5-6 lbs.
Price Paid: $400
Great value in a 4 season, single walled tent. I decided to buy it after pricing single walled tents made by Bibler and Integral designs. The colors of the Kaja are very pleasing (gold, red and blue) and it is easy to spot from a distance. Set-up is very simple and takes less than 5 minutes to fully erect and stake-out. I am 6'4" and have no problem streching fully out in this tent. The three pole design makes it the most stable small single wall tent to be found anywhere. Head room is greater than other tents of similar floor area, e.g., Bibler and Integral Designs. There is ample venting and it is very stable in high winds. Interior condensation has not been a problem. The tent comes complete with quality tent stakes, reflective guy lines, three tubes of seam sealer, a syringe, and spare patches. The stuff sack is extra large (so there is no problem getting it back into the sack) and there is a seperate sack for the poles and stakes.
On the negative side, the seams on the Kaja are not hot taped like those on the Bibler and Integral Designs tents. It is necessary to seam seal the stiches. Also, the number of zippers on this tent drives me nuts! I think the designers could get by with less. I would also like to see more interior storage pockets. The Kaja only has two and they are rather small at that.
All in all, the Garuda Kaja is a great tent that can be purchased for a reasonable price. It is light enough to use on solo outings and strong enough to withstand strong winds and heavy snow loads. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd propably give it an 8 or 9.
Design: 4 Season, Single Wall
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: Very Simple
Weight: 5 lbs. 6 ozs.
Price Paid: $399
I looked at many different single-wall tent. The Garuda Kaja seemed to offer the most for the price. It comes with three poles and a vestibule. Before purchase the Kaja you should be aware that the seams are not taped or sealed when you get it. You have to do the sealing yourself. The tent come with the instruction and all material necessary to perform the work. It took me about 4 to 5 hours to completely seal it (which I enjoyed). I've used my tent a few times in the hard rain and had a few minor leaks, I have to re-seal some of the seams. Just be aware of that if you decide to go with Garuda, that is probably why they are cheaper. Other than that it is a great tent and never had condensation problems. I recommend it.
Design: 4 season, wedge, single wall
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: very easy
Weight: 5lbs 6oz
Price Paid: $400
What can I say, I love my tent. It's single-wall but I haven't had any condensation problems. Fits two people with lots of headroom. Internal frame didn't seem stable at first glance, but weathered 4 months of backcountry use in Alaska with nary a problem. Once the tent is set up, only takes a few minutes, it's completely solid. Great quality construction, would take it anywhere but most extreme mountain trips. Not too heavy for solo trips either.
Design: 4 season
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: Easy once you're used to internal frame
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Utahns take light to Puerto Ricans still in the dark
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) - A group of 45 Utahns will head to Puerto Rico on Wednesday to deliver much needed light to the people on the island who are still in the dark 55 days after Hurricane Maria destroyed the island.
Most people still don't have clean drinking water either.
"It's awful," said Utah attorney Dorany Rodriguez-Baltazar, who is traveling with the group.
Their effort is called "Light Up Puerto Rico" and as the name implies, the group is taking a big load of solar-powered generators and flashlights to the island to distribute to families who may not be in the path of other relief groups like FEMA.
"We want to make sure even the most remote places in Puerto Rico get help," said Rodriguez-Baltazar.
The volunteers on who will make the trip include Utah's Lt. Governor Spencer Cox.
Utahns they say, have donated about $700,00 in supplies so far. https://www.youcaring.com/familiesinpuertorico-960944
Each person on the relief trip will take two pieces of Luggage to be checked by the airline (Jet Blue). Each suitcase will be loaded with the lamps and generators and other items like diapers.
As soon as the group touches down on the island, they will immediately fan out to different areas to deliver the items.
Cari Alvarado is one of the people spearheading the effort on the ground.
Like Rodriguez-Baltazar she was born in Puerto Rico and feels a sense of responsibility to those who are suffering on the island – including her extended family.
"We want to keep helping until they are back to the way they were before," she said.
But it will likely be years before the people of Puerto Rico feel some sense of normalcy again.
According to CNN, Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rossello lobbied on capitol hill for another 4 billion dollars to help the island recover from the physical and economic "catastrophe".
About 100,000 Puerto Ricans have reportedly fled to the mainland. More are expected to leave.
Rodriguez-Baltazar feels that had Hurrican Maria destroyed any part of the mainland U.S., recovery efforts would have moved a lot faster.
The Utah group hopes to make more relief trips to Puerto Rico.
"There are brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico, U.S. citizens, who need our help," said Rodriguez-Baltazar.


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Liam Cleary
Liam began his career as a Trainer of all things computer-related. He quickly realized that programming, breaking, and hacking was a lot more fun. He spent the next few years working within core infrastructure and security services until he found SharePoint. He is the founder and owner of SharePlicity, a consulting company that focuses on all areas of Technology. His role within SharePlicity is to help organizations implement technology that will enhance internal and external collaboration, document and records management, automate business processes, and of course security controls and protection. Liam also serves as the Principal Technology Advisor at Rencore, where he is helping to develop offerings that help organizations further understand and mitigate security and compliance risks, within SharePoint and Office 365 customization's. His core focus will is to identify, control, and protect whether they are full-fledged customization's or out-of-the-box Office 365 functionality. He is also a thirteen-time Microsoft MVP focusing on Architecture but also crosses the boundary into Development. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). His specialty over the past few years has been security in SharePoint and its surrounding platforms. He can often be found at user groups or conferences speaking, offering advice, spending time in the community, teaching his kids how to code, raspberry PI programming, hacking the planet or building Lego robots.
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Hook bashed privacy
What's more abhorrent: a man who vents his frustration on the answering machine of a colleague with whom he's having a conflict, that colleague publicly humiliating that man by getting a news weekly to publish an article about it, or the news weekly which accommodates him?
I thought such subjective person-bashing articles were beneath the Hook.
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The Barrett-Jackson auctions are typically filled with expensive classic cars and other exotics, so why are they auctioning off a Geo Metro of all things?
The one-off 1989 "Zonker" 2-door Geo Metro was apparently a personal project car for ex-GM Design VP, Chuck Jordan. Created as a styling exercise and painted in p***y magnet yellow, this hot little number will be auctioned off at the Barrett-Jackson auction on January 13th along with the rest of the GM Heritage Center cars. We'll likely pass up the ZR1 rolling chassis for this little number.
(Hat Tip To Matthew!)
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"Give me a reason to let you live…"
Beached after losing his ship and crew, and with England finally at peace, Lt Christopher Penrose will take whatever work he can get. A valet? Why not? Escorting an elderly diplomat to the Leeward Islands seems like an easy job, but when their ship is boarded by pirates, Kit's world is turned upside down. Forced aboard the pirate ship, Kit finds himself juggling his honor with his desire to stay alive among the crew, not to mention the alarming—yet enticing—captain, known as Le Griffe.
Kit has always obeyed the rules, but as the pirates plunder their way across the Caribbean, he finds much to admire in their freedom. He deplores their lawlessness but is drawn to their way of life, and begins to think he might just have found a purpose. Dare he dream of finding love too? Or would loving a pirate take him too far down the road to ruin?
ebook – 289 pages (approx)
Review by Alex Beecroft
First Impressions
I love the cover – all that gold and rigging and lovely ruffly shirts. A proper naval jacket immediately catches my eye, but the piratical scarf and the fact that that's clearly not a naval ship (with those crows' nests) already suggests an interesting conflict.
My initial impression that this was going to be a romance between Kit and his delightful fashionable friend Tristan. The two of them had such chemistry that I was quite sad when currently turned-ashore Lieutenant Kit got a job as an elderly gentleman's valet and set sail for the Leeward Islands. But soon their small merchant vessel is attacked by pirates and Kit is taken captive aboard the Africa, captained by the gentleman pirate La Griffe (Griffin to his friends.)
Kit is gay, but he has all the ingrained prejudices and internalized homophobia appropriate to a naval officer, for whom sodomy is a hanging offence. I liked the fact that he did not experience a sudden inexplicable change of heart on simply seeing Griffin.
I also liked the fact that Griffin is a cut above some romance-novel-pirates, who would think nothing of a bit of dub- or even non-con. I really dislike the whole 'irresistible alpha male semi-forces himself on other bloke, confident he will like it in the end, and of course he does' trope. It's one of the things that generally puts me off pirate novels – all that threat of rape. Fortunately Griffin is too proud to force himself on an unwilling partner, which means that instead we get a relationship of slowly developing respect between the two men.
Kit is put to work doing such things aboard the pirate sloop that he can be trusted to do without sabotaging the ship or damaging his own honour. This gives rise to another of the great joys of the book, which is the fact that even without the m/m romance element this is a wonderful Age of Sail novel. I would almost go so far as to say that it's an Age of Sail novel with m/m romance elements rather than a m/m romance-novel with AoS elements.
Elin Gregory's research is impeccable, her scenes of shipboard life are endlessly engaging, full of lively characters, great nautical battles and intrigues and raving sailing. Anyone who has enjoyed Master and Commander, or Hornblower, would enjoy this novel as a thoroughly entertaining bit of historical swashbuckling.
The romance is slow developing, but I think it's all the more convincing for that. Both men have time to show their finer qualities, which in both their cases are fine indeed. They also have time to work through their issues, making the development of the love between them more easy to believe. By the end, when Griffin is betrayed by one of his own men, it's just as easy for the reader to be on the edge of their seat with nerves about how he will ever come back as it is for Kit.
Speaking of swashbuckling, there's something satisfyingly old school about the ending, where by old school I mean 'reminds me of classic pirate films like Captain Blood'. It's a delightful twist, completely unexpected at least by me, and yet properly foreshadowed early on, so that when it does happen you go 'oh, so that's why…!'
To sum up. I can't actually think of anything bad to say about this, other than that the pace and emphasis of the story is more that of an Age of Sail novel than that of a romance. To me that makes the book all the better. Lots to read and get your teeth into as well as a proper pace for the psychological journey Kit has to go on. But those who prefer a more wham, bam, thank you man pace may find it a little slow going. My advice would be to relax and enjoy the ride, because what a ride it is.
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Did this idea die a death? Personally I think it would be fantastic to use jQuery to inject rich content into Xtreme pages.
I used jQuery myself on my first Xara web effort to add a simple screen fade-in when displaying popup layers. This was a straight forward enough once I'd got a basic grasp of the markup structure output by Xara.
If anything can be done to make the next version of Web Designer output HTML even more suited to manipulation / traversal by jQuery then all the better (my technical know how is far too limited to suggest what this would be, maybe the existing markup is quite jQuery 'friendly' enough already!).


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20 minutes
Cook 8 ounces of wagon wheel pasta according to package directions; drain. In a food processor or blender, puree 3 cups packed baby spinach leaves, 1 cup packed basil leaves, 2 peeled garlic cloves, 1⁄4 cup pine nuts, 2⁄3 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 4 teaspoons lemon juice and 1 tablespoon honey.
While the food processor or blender is running, gradually pour in 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil; process until combined. Toss the cooked pasta with the pesto. Gently fold in 1⁄2 cup fi nely chopped grape tomatoes. Makes 10 servings.
Per toddler serving:
(1⁄2 cup) 195 calories, 6 g protein, 21 g carbohydrate, 9.5 g fat (1.5 g saturated), 1,150 IU vitamin A, 5 mg vitamin C, 82 mg calcium, 1.6 mg iron, 91 mg sodium, 1.5 g fiber
Stacy Whitman is a freelance writer and the mother of a 3-year-old boy and 11-month-old twins in Idaho. Kim Galeaz, R.D., C.D., is a culinary nutrition consultant and registered dietitian in Indianapolis, Ind., and Jacksonville, Fla.
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Loopholes: Lead scare in Scottsville
Washington, DC, residents are grappling with the news that many of the city's water pipes are made of lead– and that the water authority allegedly has been aware of that fact for several years without telling its clients.
Lead has been elementa non grata in the United States since the mid-'70s, when it was phased out of gasoline. Lead-based paint was banned in 1978.
There are plenty of regulations on the books about lead, but a woman in Scottsville discovered that getting answers to her concerns about possible lead contamination and finding someone to enforce those regs isn't easy.
Dena Radley lives on Valley Road next door to the Stinson House, which is owned by Charlottesville developer Oliver Kuttner. The house dates from 1916, according to county property records.
On April 7, Radley noticed painters scraping the garage next door, which she is convinced has lead-based paint. "When you're dealing with historic buildings, that's the first thing you look at," she says.
"My concern is that this gets into the ground water and town sewer system," she says, "and it's going to be in my yard."
Radley was appalled to see workers scraping without wearing masks. She started calling government agencies.
The county health department told her it couldn't do anything unless an infant or child's health was involved, Radley relates.
Nor does county code regulate lead-based paint, other than to say it can't be used in new construction. "The building code does not require removal of lead paint, nor does it tell you how to dispose of it," says Albemarle building official Jay Schlothauer.
The Virginia Property Maintenance Code says that paint must be maintained. "We can only enforce that if we get a complaint from a tenant," says Schlothauer. "If it's flaking and chipped, it must be repaired– but the code doesn't tell how to do that."
Radley called the Department of Environmental Quality, which has no jurisdiction over the scraping of paint, according to its spokesman, Bill Hayden. He suggested Radley try the health department.
She called the Scottsville town administrator, Barry Clark.
"My hands are tied because there's no regulation," says Clark. "This is a town of old houses. People scrape and paint their houses all the time, and there's no county or town regulation on doing that."
Clark also cautions, "The first thing is, we don't know if it's lead paint."
The one person Radley didn't call was Kuttner. "He should be aware," complains Radley. "We're in a historic district. A lot of the houses have lead-based paint."
Kuttner says the house was stripped of lead 15 years ago. As for whether the garage has lead-based paint, "I never thought of it," he says.
"My painter of 20 years said, 'It's not lead, and if it was, I wouldn't be doing it.' " As a precaution, however, Kuttner, stopped the painting upon hearing of Radley's concerns and says he's having samples tested.
Mike Alexander, who owns Alexander Painting Contractors and is licensed in lead abatement, can sympathize with Radley. "You've got to go through so many hoops and so many calls, people give up," he says.
And there's a good reason people may want to skip lead abatement: It's expensive. Alexander estimates the cost at between $25,000 and $30,000 to properly scrape the exterior of a house.
When Alexander's employees remove lead, they wear body suits, and the building must be covered in plastic. Otherwise, "Those chips will go everywhere," he says.
He compares it to asbestos abatement. "Both of them are dust. The only difference is the respiratory cartridge," he says.
It's the lead dust that causes the real problem, particularly for young children.
Lead attacks the central nervous center, explains Virginia's lead czar, Tom Perry, who works with the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. In infants and children under six, exposure to lead can inhibit growth and cause retardation and death, he says.
Children eating paint chips is a popular stereotype, but what parents should really fear is dust on the floor. "That's where children under six spend the most time, putting everything in their mouths," says Perry. "Chips you can see."
And, more ominously, he warns, "You never can completely get lead out of the body."
Perry is the person to call if you suspect someone is illegally removing lead paint. However, he notes several caveats. For one, there are no regulations for a homeowner removing lead from his or her own house.
Another loophole is that if a homeowner hires someone for remodeling, renovation, or landscaping, "Our regulations only cover activities classified as abatement." That means if your painter is hired to paint– not to remove lead-based paint– well, painting usually involves scraping, says Perry.
He does say it's the responsibility of the contractor– even if not licensed– "to assume lead is in houses built before 1978."
Sellers of homes built before 1978 are supposed to disclose whether there's lead in the house. "But," says Perry, "if it's never been tested, you don't know." And the loophole is that there's no requirement to have a house tested.
Radley is still peeved about a painting session she says occurred at the same house a few years ago. "For over a week, I was cleaning dust off the sidewalks," she says.
As for her worries about lead getting into the ground water and Scottsville's storm drains, Perry can reassure her on that point. "Lead doesn't leech into the ground water," he says. "It doesn't go farther than four inches." And because lead dust is so heavy, it settles quickly.
"The biggest danger is children playing on top of it," says Perry, and a lot of people remodeling may not be aware of the lead-tainted dust they're spreading around or carrying home to their children.
Joel Lovings of Environmental Health Consultants is the go-to man for lead concerns in town, and he's fully aware of the toothlessness of some lead laws.
"Why have a government regulation that affects everyone and have nobody enforcing it that I know of?" he asks.
"Courts could have a field day from [someone] contaminating a neighbor's yard," he says, especially if they have small kids. Lovings says he's been involved in a couple of cases like that here in Charlottesville.
Homeowners who are concerned about lead-based paint can buy inexpensive test kits from area hardware stores. And Lovings suggests painting over the lead paint, which is called encapsulation. "That works on surfaces with no friction," he says, "but it not going to work on windows and doors."
The best way to deal with lead-painted old houses, says Lovings, is to replace friction points such as windows and doors: "It's less expensive to replace windows and encapsulate than to remove and replace paint." Windows are where the most dust settles, and then the wind blows it into the house, he notes.
As for the odds of lead being in a house, Lovings is blunt. "Most likely all homes built before 1970 are going to have some lead in the paint."
Kuttner says lead in paint has only come up once in his career as a contractor, and in that case, the paint did not contain lead.
He's aware that both lead and asbestos can be problems in older houses. ("I bet in 15 years, we're going to find out fiberglass is not good for you.") At one point, he'd thought of living in the Stinson House. "I never thought of it as a hazard," he says.
He's waiting for test results to see if there is lead in the paint. And he offers a suggestion to Radley.
"If she's really concerned, she could pick up the phone and call me," he says. "The correct way to deal with something like this is to call the person involved."
Leaded or unleaded? Oliver Kuttner is testing the paint on historic Stinson House in Scottsville.


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Joined: 29 Jan 2005
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Location: Chicago and other places
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:11 pm
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Erin: You're winging your way to sunny Mexico, while I'm sitting at my kitchen window, looking outside at 2" of new snow and a 16 degree wind chill! If it's heading your way, I'm so glad that YOU and Phil are in a warm place, surrounded by love!
Hmmmm, Mexican phrases....well, my entire crew of 17 guys are Mexican but the phrases I know would have me bounced off this board!
In Chicago, there's ZERO problem with Tex-Mex in our cuisine; there are so many 100% Mexican/Hispanic neighborhoods here (we live in one called Logan Square) that my crew leader smiles and says, "We never left home; home came with us!"
For the really technical recipes that are referenced above, not even the current families make them at home; they ALL go out to a restaurant to eat them. Chilie rellanos are one of those dishes that Marcellino (my crew leader) and his family don't even bother to make at home any longer because of the degree of difficulty and that modern Mexican women all have jobs and have no more time to make the stuff than their husbands. That's what
are for when they come up from the Old Country, meaning Grandmothers.
I have many simple Mexican dishes that are favorites that have been made for me by my Hispanic friends. Flan is my hands down favorite, because it's like custard on *crack*...it's OVER the top! My friend, Janet, who's father is a cook for a Jewish restaurant (go figure?) makes 9 x 13" pan of flan weekly for his family to dive into. For my birthday a couple of years ago, he made one just for me, instead of a cake! I was over the moon about it.
Chilie Rellanos are a given and also, there's a very local dish where we live: Mexican Chicken soup. No matter
website I've visited, I can NOT find a recipe for this dish, which is so different than American or Jewish Chicken Soup. In fact, Tony's, our mega Mexican grocery mart, sells all the fixin's in a pre-package, for mom's to toss together, but it's only the veggie's and not the seasoning.
When you get it at a local restaurant, it comes in a bowl big enough to serve four, but it's only YOUR course; they must have a heartier appetite than I do. What's in the bowl is half of a chicken, whacked in half; an entire cob of corn, cut into four chunks; carrots; potatoes; cilantro; and a host of vegetables that I have NO idea what they are! I don't even know what they are in the grocery store and since the stafff of Tony's is NOT bilingual, I can't ask them. And the crowning touch, LIMES! Lots and lots of LIMES squeezed directly in the soup and also just floating in the soup. Lordy, my tummy is aching for a bowl of this right now!
And I can't forget Mexican Grilled Cheese: cheese quesidilla's. They are such comfort food that a couple of times per week, Sally's roommates or I are whipping up a batch for the apartment to nosh on.
I'm looking forward to hearing about your wonderful vacation, Erin. Have a safe flight for both you and Phil, coming and going.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:07 pm
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We are just about to head out thanks for all of the well wishes!
DQ, I will definitely be having some soup, it is one of my favorites. I have a recipe for it somewhere, when I get home I will find it for you. I used to date a guy who's mom was from Mexico and was a FABULOUS cook, that is where I got the recipe.
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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Location: Berkeley, CA
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:35 pm
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Flan is my hands down favorite, because it's like custard on *crack*...it's OVER the top!
DQ, that was so funny I nearly fell out of my chair! My sweetie and I always say that there must be crack in something if we can't stop eating it, it's so good.
I may have a recipe for Mexican chicken soup kicking around somewhere. Years ago I compiled a digital cookbook for a Southwestern restaurant I worked at, and there were hundreds of recipes for the family's other restaurant, an authentic Mexican place in Los Angeles. It may take a while, but I'll have a look.
Btw, nothing can compare to tamales made with fresh, fluffy masa, soaking up a good tomatillo sauce. If I ever had to choose a last meal, that would probably be it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:40 pm
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Erin: You're a wee star for looking for the recipe! It's Sally's favorite Mexican Dish; her Scottish tongue can't take much more spicy than Chicken Soup!
And if I was able to make this at home, I'd have a Happy Honey coming home.
I tried, I really, really tried, to find this recipe. I used Google, I used MSN, I tried Mexican Chicken Soup, Mexican Soup...and came up with nothing except Taco or Tortilla Soup.
I'm glad that you've arrived safely and when you have time after coming back home...safely...I'll look forward to the recipe.
FESTE: You and I posted at the identical time, so I went back in to edit this post. I guess I must be describing the soup accurately enough if both you and Erin know what I'm talking about. So, I'd love BOTH of your recipes to try; they sound authentic (from the sources you've quoted), so I have no fear that it's going to be "Betty Crocker Does Mexican", with a chicken wearing a sombero!
Now I
I'm getting an order of that soup when I'm back in the city Tuesday!
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 9:40 pm
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I just arrived home last night from the vacation from hell. When I last left you all I was on my way out the door to lovely Mexico. I was back through the door within hours as I forgot our passports. I will say it once, I AM AN IDIOT! As Islip airport is rather small we missed our window for that day and had to wait an extra day, thus ruining my husbands birthday. I really took the cake this time.
As we sat at home that wasted day I felt myself coming down with a head cold. As it happens I haven't been this sick in years. I spent most of my time in our hotel room sleeping or blowing my nose. Wednesday night I pulled myself together for my best friends bachelorette party that consisted of too much of a sickly sweet local rum that actually helped my cough. I being the responsible one of the group was charged by the brides mother to take care of her. That job consisted of verbally slapping a local that spent his time trying to convince various members of our party their husbands/boyfriends would never know, reminding them that you don't go anywhere with a stranger and finally herding them all back to their respective hotels......... at 5:00am. I am not sure if it was the tacos or the medication but I woke up after that with my veins bright like a road map, blue finger nails and then the vomiting. Then later the passing out, I really thought I was dying.
On the upside the wedding was so beautiful and went off without a hitch. Well there were the Federales with machine guns that walked behind the huppa as they were pronounced husband and wife. That was just kind of funny though. I also have a restaurant recommendation to anyone going to Playa del Carmen, "La Cueva del Chango". The food was amazing, I had some kind of fish in a mango sauce, ahi tostadas, empanadas and the best salsas I have ever had. Sorry the description isn't better but frankly I was still pretty out of it. They had a wonderful wine/spirits selection they had interesting infused teas and alcohol. Oh and the setting, it was like being in the jungle. There were plants everywhere, and a stream, oh and there was a monkey at the door when we first got there. There were kittens hanging around out on the patio but it didn't seem weird or gross. I think they have a website you all should check it out.
So my trip didn't go the way I wanted, oh well. Better luck next time!
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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Location: Ontario, Canada
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 9:53 pm
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Oh no! I was sooooo looking forward to hearing about your wonderful holiday...so sorry it didn't work out as planned. But it does sound like you're still smiling so that's good...get much better soon.
Life is too short to drink cheap wine.
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Location: Chicago and other places
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 9:58 pm
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Here, Erin, Dear....a nice bowl of chicken soup for you!
I admire your honesty, with regards to the entire trip; most people would just lie and say, "Had a great time!" But, now that you're back, don't the difficult times make for a
story? No? Okay, well, maybe in the
it will be funnier!
Hope that you're on the mend, and your next trip, when you post in advance, I'll take responsibility to remind you about your passports!
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 10:08 pm
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Thanks, I am pretty absent minded but that was the first time it was something big. I could use the chicken soup too, I still have my head cold. But you are right I am still smiling suprisingly enough.
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:05 pm
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Welcome back Erin! So sorry things didn't go entirely as planned, and who can predict sickness? Sounds like you made the best of a bad deal. Butnow you can enjoy your garden!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:46 pm
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Thank you David. I am currently trying to save my garden from a late frost. Despite my neighbor dilligently watering my veggies they were attacked and are teetering on the brink of death. I am off to my local garden center for solutions!
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